| acrimony |
bitterness or sharpness in speech or behavior. |
| coroner |
a public officer employed to investigate by inquest any death not thought to have occurred by natural causes. |
| imprecise |
not exact, accurate, or well-defined; vague. |
| inept |
lacking skill or aptitude; incompetent. |
| invective |
strongly abusive or denunciatory speech or language. |
| maternity |
the state of being a mother; motherhood. |
| muse |
to think about something silently or for a long time. |
| pummel |
to strike heavily with or as if with the fists, a sword, a club, or the like; beat. |
| rehabilitate |
to restore to good health or to an otherwise improved state of being. |
| reprove |
to criticize, usually mildly, for wrongdoing. |
| resurrect |
to restore to life or good standing; raise out of death or disrepute. |
| resuscitate |
to bring back to life or consciousness; revive. |
| seedy |
unkempt or shabby. |
| unseemly |
not in accord with accepted social standards; improper; indecorous. |
| utopia |
(often capitalized) an imagined or proposed place or society that is ideal, especially in its laws, ethics, and treatment of humanity. |